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What a pity. “Only a fourth of planned malls completed in Turkey this year. Dispatches from Turkey…
Only a fourth of planned malls completed in Turkey this year Only 16 of the planned 64 malls in Turkey have been able to be completed this year due to cancellations... Read more
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Turkish conservative social engineering: Building more prisons; Freeing headscarf for students, banning make-up, tattoos and piercings
Gov’t frees headscarf for students, bans make-up, tattoos and piercings Hurriyet Daily News A government decree changing the regulation on the dress code in public schools is published in the Official... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: “27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted For Insult in Twitter Case
27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted For Insult in Twitter Case Bianet :: English İzmir 22nd Assize Court ordered the acquittal of 27 out of 28 defendants charged with “igniting public to violating... Read more
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Government turns back to #OccupyGezi activists, targets Çarşı #çArşıYalnızDeğildir
Turkish football fans face life in prison for ‘coup attempt’ during Gezi protests Prosecutors accused members of çArşı of ‘attempting to overthrow the gov’t’ in Arab Spring-like fashion Workers at Istanbul construction... Read more
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After all boasting about other issues, Erdoğan seems to have been told to be careful about anti-semitism
Turkey may play quiet role in US coalition against Islamic State Turkey may find it hard to play a public role in the coalition the United States is building... Read more
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“Coronation” finally. Erdoğan, the 12th President
Erdoğan Takes Oath As 12th President Bianet :: English Having received his official election results, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was sworn in as president this afternoon. US denies that low-profile Erdoğan delegation... Read more
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Next week events (1): “Governance or Ungovernance: A Strategy Workshop for Internet Activists #ungov
Governance or Ungovernance: A Strategy Workshop for Internet Activists 3rd of September, 2014 at MMO [1] Istanbul, Turkey https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/gov_ungov_workshop.html * Are you confused about all the complicated and overlapping institutions that... Read more
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Turkey’s new PM to be chosen in AKP Congress where 13 Media Institutions banned.
6,000 people honor Atatürk’s memory by forming his portrait **************** ‘AKP chair, not leadership, is changing hands’ Here are the first impressions from the ruling party’s congress in Ankara Accreditation Barrier for 13... Read more
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Journalist Ceyda Karan (@ceydak) targeted by pro-AKP media and political trolls #CeydaKaranYalnizDegildir
Ms. Karan has been a particular target since Gezi Park Protests. AKP circles used to like her a lot but as she gradually became critical of the government, increasing symbolic violence... Read more
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A staunchly pro-AKP columnist desires for a Pol Pot style government…
Yusuf Kaplan in an article entitled, 20 suggestions for Erdoğan, published in AKP’s Pravda, Yeni Şafak declared that: 19- Bogaziçi, Bilkent and ODTÜ, which are being the volunteer agencies of other cultures, should... Read more
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In the anniversary of PKK’s attackes began, guerilla chief’s statue erected.
News in Turkish The statue is in a Diyarbakır village. It is for “Mahsum Korkmaz, also known as Agit, was the first commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s military forces.” ************** Turkey ruling party favours Davutoglu... Read more
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Soner Çağaptay believes “Turkey’s Future Will Be Liberal… Dispatches from Turkey
If we survive, this might actually be true…. After Erdogan, Turkey’s Future Will Be Liberal NYT > Turkey by By SONER CAGAPTAY Erdogan won on Sunday, but the era of Islamist dominance... Read more
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“You don’t worth my shoe” – Dispatches from Turkey
You don’t worth my shoe, angry MP yells at male colleagues Turkish Parliament has witnessed a rare moment of protest when an infuriated MP told her male colleagues that she might... Read more
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Deputy PM warns AKP’s Twitter trolls; CHP dissidents alert; Nothing much heard about MHP
Deputy PM warns AKP rookies to ‘calm down’ Turkish deputy Prime Minister Arınç urges younger members of the ruling party AKP to ‘calm down’ after a row within the party... Read more
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In a couple of hours, AKP leadership attempts to rule our Abdullah Gül from the PM scenarios…
AKP spokesperson just Hüseyin Çelik declared that the AKP convention to choose the new PM will be on Aug 27, a day before Gül’s retirement from the Presidency… This decision is apparently... Read more
